I heard about this company through a family member and I loved the idea of it, taking produce that no one else was going to eat and keeping it from being wasted is great because I know how much food goes to waste for being a little damaged or not perfect enough for grocery stores. However, execution on this 'solution' is not good.
So the way the website works is that you can 'build your box' 4-5 days before it will be delivered (i.e. I would build on Monday to get the box on Saturday). However, when building the box items are sorted into 3-4 categories and you have to choose a certain number of items from each group (even if you don't want them?)
Typically I plan out meals for the week on the Thursday/Friday before and go grocery shopping on Saturday. This box made it completely impossible to plan. On my first box I planned fajitas because one of the things I was sort of forced to get was limes as I just needed another pick from that category and I didn't want to waste. I made plans for all the veggies I was supposed to get in the box but was very disappointed when it arrived. I had some squash in the box that had been thrown in together with everything else causing my green peppers to be smashed (no big deal I just was going to cut them up anyway) but they didn't include sweet potatoes I had ordered and seemed maybe instead they sent me more limes?? I received 4 limes, in what world is that 1-2 servings of lime??
Needless to say I wasn't terribly impressed, but in the name of fairness I decided to give them one more chance, but the second box was even worse than the first! At least I was able to use everything in the first box. The second box was two days late. They said it might be held up by the snowstorm, but there was absolutely no more snow and should not have been delayed because of that (so I had to make plans and go shopping without being sure of what/how much produce I would be getting from Misfits). In my second box I ordered romaine lettuce, green leaf lettuce and spinach, it seems as though they just substitute if they don't have what you actually ordered, which is absolutely ridiculous since they're limiting your choices so much in the first place but I received RED leaf lettuce (seemed much more bitter than the green) and two bunches of spinach with no other lettuce to speak of. This was not in my plans-so now what was I going to do with all this spinach? (which still had the roots and was covered in dirt that got everywhere in the box) I also didn't get the broccoli that I ordered and the tomatoes I got were very soft (they were supposed to be beefsteak so soft to the touch is not what I anticipated.) And when I cut into the onion I got it was rotten inside.
I ended up going to the store to get $15 more dollars in produce to replace what I NEEDED for the week. This service is not convenient and doesn't save me any money because I honestly end up with a lot of produce I don't know what to do with. You'd be better off simply buying what you WANT from the store than getting a box of random stuff of questionable quality.
3 years ago
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